Nassau County Museum of Art Presents "Bill Cunningham New York" August 3, 2011

“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Anna Wintour, Vogue magazine’s editor in chief.

For decades, New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has been a hotly sought-after presence at New York society’s grandest balls and benefits, capturing the city’s glitterati and what they’re wearing for “Evening Hours.” Those who live and work in Manhattan are used to running into Cunningham as he roams New York’s sidewalks chronicling the trendiest clothing of the season for “On the Street.”

For the first time, Cunningham’s life-long passion to record fashion trends on the street and in the world of the high society charity circuit has been committed to film. See New York fixtures such as Wintour, author Tom Wolfe, businessman and philanthropist David Rockefeller, the late society doyenne Brooke Astor and many, many more as they fashionably make their way from party to party. See ordinary people wearing clothing of the day that happens to catch Cunningham’s trained eye for what’s new and interesting.

In conjunction with the exhibition of work by the famed celebrity and fashion photographer Richard Avedon, Nassau County Museum of Art is presenting a screening of Bill Cunningham New York, an 84-minute film by Richard Press, every Wednesday through August at 3 p.m. There is no fee to attend these screenings beyond museum admission.

Nassau County Museum of Art is located at One Museum Drive (just off Northern Boulevard, Route 25A, two traffic lights west of Glen Cove Road) in Roslyn Harbor. Hours for Arnold & Joan Saltzman Fine Art Building (main building) are 11 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students and children (4 to12). The Museum Gift Shop is open during museum hours.